Chapter 831: Claug's Devious Plan

Chapter 831: Claug's Devious Plan



One day passed and the girls reached the border of the next kingdom, but sadly this time it wasn't easy.

"You're..." One of the knights approached the carriage and looked at Tempo who was beside it. "A red-haired warrior and several women inside..." He pulled out a paper and looked at it. The knight cleared his throat, "By order of the royal family, you're all herby arrested under the suspension of conspiracy to interfere with the kingdom's militaristic advances and thus are sentenced to death by hanging." He waved his hand to the other soldier.

"No need for a trial, all that's needed is several ropes and a large tree. Use that one over there." He pointed at one large oak tree as the knights surrounded the carriage.

"Really?" Eris opened the carriage's door and walked out, her eyes flashing purple. "You want us executed..."

"Just kill them and let's move on." Merida growled, reaching for her sword.

The ground started to shake as Meryem wanted to get out with her children and trample the whole place.

"Calm down, we aren't here to kill them." Aella growled at them. At a time like this, she was the only one capable of speaking sense to everyone.

"I can mind control them." Merlin pointed at one of the knights and the man jumped down from his horse and started worshipping her. "See? Easy. No mental fortitude at all."

"I fear this might explode as well with me and Merlin tuning it." Mira was working on another bomb.

"Should I bring them something from the king?" Betty looked out with a calm face, her lips curled like a cat as she giggled.

Eris walked out of the carriage and faced the commander of the knights, extending her hands forward. "Want? Arrest me? Come, where are your cuffs?"

He reached for the cuffs with a smile; they were a large pair of steel cuffs used for slaves. But the moment he started approaching Eris, breathing became harder as his armor started getting hotter and hotter.

The commander fell on his knees, gasping for air as his vision blurred, the heat around Eris was far beyond what a human could handle, but that wasn't all. With her magic now infused with divine magic, it directly damaged the bodies of living beings, doing the reverse of healing, which is damage.

The commander's vision twisted as he could fear the searing pain surging through his whole body, he was getting grilled alive by his armor just for standing close to Eris.

"What's the problem?" You're here to arrest us, aren't you?"

The other knights tried to approach her, but the heat dropped them back to their knees. It was like standing one inch away from a burning furnace, and the painful holy magic made it even worse.

"Fine. I'll do it myself." She took the cuffs and cuffed herself, "See? I've got them on." As she tried to show them her hands, the cuffs melted and fell to the ground, setting the grass on fire.

"Oh my..." She looked at the commander, "Did you bring the wrong ones? Well, Fine, I'll execute myself." She approached the ropes, and they all burned.

Eris sighed, "How am I supposed to hang myself? Can't you at least do your job?" She glared back at the commander, and then smiled, "Do you know why you'll never be able to stop us? It's because of this." She opened her palm and plasma gushed from her hand, sparking with bolts of divine magic.

The golden and purple embers took the shape of a sword dripping with divine magic. "This is a holy sword; do you know what its purpose is?"

"It's to prevent you stupid kingdoms from starting the end of the world by picking a fight with Uranus, my husband who's in the desert resting." She glared at the commander's terrified face with plasma dripping from her eyes.

"And no, no, no, it's not to slay him and save humanity...It is to slay the humans foolish enough to start a fight. Eradicating a few kingdoms is worth it to save the rest, right?" She planted the sword in the ground.

"I'll kill Claug for you in exchange for gold. This was what we first talked about." She sat

down and nodded, "I came back to discuss the price and details. And let me make it clear from the start," She pointed at him with her claw, "I'm working as a claw for hire. You'll be taking the credit for slaying Claug, her corpse, and hoard."

Jeffry smiled, rubbing his hands together. "Of course, of course...Just tell me how much

money you want. I'll pay you whatever you ask." He couldn't help but giggle. He could just make the money back from selling Claug's corpse and hoard, he'll also rise in noble ranks for such an achievement, to him, this was far worth it.

"Won't you get more money by killing her for yourself?" His commander of knights asked, glaring at the gold Drakaina{Claug} with a suspicious look on his face.

"We metallic dragons don't kill and steal dragons' wealth. But, no one says anything about

working as mercenaries. Hour hoards must be earned fairly." She nodded, "That's why I'd rather get paid than steal someone else's hoard, even if it means I get less money." She

growled at Jeffry, "That's why, her blood is on your hand, not mine. You take the glory and

guilt alike."

"Don't pester the great drakaina," Jeffry growled at his commander, "I'll pay you! How much, state your price."

She scratched her chin with her claw, "How about, five hundred platinum coins?"

"That much!" Everyone gasped, but Jeffry didn't seem bothered. "Agreed! I've got the money

at hand, go kill her and I'll pay you without questions."

"Sir! You can't throw such money just like..."

"Shut up! We'll get rid of Claug; I'll make the money back in no time." Jeffry growled and

looked back at Claug, rubbing his hands. "Please, don't listen to those fools; they don't understand the worth of a dragon's services."

"I'll slay Claug, get the money ready." She flew away, "Don't make me wait when I return."

As she disappeared behind the mountains, the nobles ordered his knights to hurry. He needs

to get the money ready, not paying a metallic dragon could lead to bigger troubles than a

Claug herself.

Claug sat behind the mountain and started flipping through her crystals, "Let's see, where is his crystal? This for Lord Benjamin, Alora... Jenny...Fredrina...she seems busy, I guess a child is coming this year....found it." She found Jeffry's crystal after sneaking a look at multiple

noble's private lives.

She sat in that place for a whole day, watching Jeffry's men gather the money from his vaults and accumulate it in a hidden base in the middle of nowhere, protected by several knights. "Time to steal it." She shifted into a red dragon and flew into the sky.